Cha Eun-woo and Kim Seon-ho are suspected of tax evasion..What we have in common is family [Star Issue]

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It's in the middle of a mountain. Singer and actor Cha Eun-woo is under investigation for alleged tax evasion of 20 billion won, while actor Kim Sun-ho is also embroiled in allegations of tax evasion. Kim Sun-ho is a little different from Cha Eun-woo in terms of the amount and situation, but he is drawing more attention because it broke out amid the controversy over Cha Eun-woo. The two seemingly irrelevant tax evasion allegations have something in common. That they both belong to Fantagio. And the family is involved in the alleged tax evasion.

On the 1st, actor Kim Sun-ho was embroiled in a suspicion of tax evasion through a single-person corporation. The corporation was established before leaving its former agency, Salt Entertainment, and Fantagio, the current agency, denied the allegations. According to the sports trend report, Kim Sun-ho established a separate performance planning corporation in January 2024 at his home address in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. The corporation was operated under a family management system in which Kim Sun-ho was the CEO and parents were registered as internal directors and auditors.

The key to the allegations is the flow of funds and the private use of corporate cards. The circumstances were raised that Kim Sun-ho paid tens of millions of won a month to his parents with corporate funds and then transferred it back to his account. Records of the father paying for cigarettes with a corporate card or using them at entertainment establishments such as karaoke bars were also revealed. January 2024, when the corporation was established, was when Kim Sun-ho belonged to Salt Entertainment, his former agency. Kim Sun-ho later terminated his exclusive contract with Salt Entertainment in February 2025 after six years, and moved to Fantagio a month later in March. At the time of the transfer, there was a story that Kim Sun-ho received a down payment worth 2 billion won from Fantagio.

Fantagio denied Kim Sun-ho's alleged tax evasion and said in an official statement, "Kim Sun-ho has signed an exclusive contract with Fantagio under his personal name and is faithfully complying with legal and tax procedures regarding his current contractual relationship or activities. "I would like to make it clear that there are no problems regarding the contract and activities of Kim Sun-ho and his agency Fantagio," he said. Regarding the corporation in the past, the agency said, "It was established for theater production and theater-related activities, and it is not a corporation established for the purpose of deliberate tax savings or tax evasion. However, since moving to Fantagio, the actual business activities have not been carried out since about a year ago, and we are currently in the process of closing the business in accordance with related laws and procedures.

Fantagio denied Kim Sun-ho's alleged tax evasion, but the suspicion remains.

It is also ironic that Kim Sun-ho maintained his activities even though he had not been active through the one-person agency since a year ago, but is in the process of closing down after Cha Eun-woo's 20 billion tax evasion broke out recently.

Cha Eun-woo's family is also involved in tax evasion, which was recently notified of more than 20 billion won in tax collection by the National Tax Service after being heavily investigated by the Seoul Regional Tax Office in the first half of last year.

The National Tax Service judged that tax evasion was carried out through corporation A established by Cha Eun-woo's mother. Cha Eun-woo reportedly worked in a structure in which his agency Fantagio and his mother's corporation A signed a service contract to support entertainment activities, and the profits were divided and attributed to Fantagio, the corporation, and Cha Eun-woo. The core of this controversy is whether corporation A is involved in Cha Eun-woo's profit distribution process. In the midst of this, it was controversial that the entity of the corporation was actually an "eel house" run by Cha Eun-woo's mother.

Following Cha Eun-woo's alleged tax evasion of 20 billion won, is Fantagio currently interpreting Netflix's "I Love"?Even Kim Sun-ho, who is raising his stock price in the midst of '', is embroiled in suspicions. Kim Sun-ho is in his second heyday after self-reflection due to controversy over his privacy, so it should be noted how the tax evasion allegations that arose at this time will affect him.

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